How do I cut-and-paste an email, so that paste will be in pure text (stripping all html)

Question

I need to be able to select and copy and email, then paste it into a textbox (Sharepoint multi-line extended field). It messes things up when you do this directly since emails have a ton of html in them. How do I copy and then paste the text only?

Answer 1

What I usually do is paste the text into notepad then copy it again before pasting it elsewhere. That should also remove any font styles and colors applied to the text.

Answer 2

As mentioned above, you can use Notepad as a middleman for the text, or if you run Windows and you need to do this a lot, it may be easier to download a program called PureText that does the same thing.

There are nearly a million other of these scripts, but PureText seems to be the most configurable and GUI-hugging.